A blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, an employment discrimination case.

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Parallel Scenes: Brother and Sister Recognition

In the following scene from Strauss's opera Elektra, the title character discovers that the mysterious stranger is really her brother, Orestes. Elektra looks to Orestes to free her from the bondage imposed by her mother and step-father.

In the following scene from Wagner's Die Walkure, Sieglinde learns that the mysterious stranger is her brother, Siegmund. Siegmund frees Sieglinde from bondage to her husband, Hunding.